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domenica 29 luglio 2012

THE REMARKABLE ROCKET - riassunto

All the
city was in excitement and the people were preparing themselves for the great
day of the Princess’ arrival. After that the Prince and the Princess, who came
from Russia to marry her betrothed, had the Royal Banquet together and the
Rose-dance, while the King played the flute very badly, they prepared themselves
for the fireworks: the latest item of the programme, and, at the same time, the
most fascinating thing that made the King proud of himself.

The Royal
Pyrotechnist prepared all the fireworks in order, but during the time between
the Banquet and midnight, the fireworks meet the others fellows and discussed
for a long time.

Who was the
most showy was the Remarkable Rocket, which came from an remarkable family. He liked
very much talking about himself and about all his capacity, all his honour and his
distinguished position in the society. He had even the theatre talent, so, to prove
it, began to pretend crying. But this was a bad mistake, because in this way
his stick grew wetter and wetter.

So, when
the midnight came, the show began. It was wonderful and breath-taking: the
Princess was ecstatic for the astonishing colours and evolutions that the
fireworks was making in the air. But the Remarkable Rocket wasn’t let of in the
sky: for he was useless, he was threw over the Royal Walls in a ditch mud. There
he met a Frog, a Dragon-fly and a Duck; with these animals he discussed always
about himself and the inferiority of his listeners, in fact these were all
alteractions.

Suddenly,
two little boys arrived running down the pond with faggots and boiler.

Because of
they considered the Rocket an old spray, they used him to feed the fire, and
then they falled asleep, while they were waiting that the boiler was ready.

The Rocket flew
in the air; he thought about his beauty, his fame in that special moment of his
life, but nobody saw or heard him.